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The head of UND’s School of Entrepreneurship said the donation to North Dakota’s only other research university for an endowed chair of entrepreneurship is a positive thing for the whole state.

“My reaction is congratulations to them,” Executive Director and Chairman Tim O'Keefe said. “That success on their part does nothing other than validate the value of entrepreneurship as an educational pursuit and that it bodes well for entrepreneurship education in the entire region.“

At North Dakota State University, an anonymous $3 million donation had been given in honor of Jim Ozbun, a former NDSU president, and the donation will be supplemented by a $1.5 million matching state grant, according to a Wednesday announcement by Dean Bresciani, the current president.

Anna Burleson is the higher education reporter for The Grand Forks Herald. She is a 2013 graduate of the University of South Dakota's Mass Communication program and is originally from Watertown, S.D. Contact her with story ideas or tips by phone, email or Twitter, all of which are listed below. Examples of her work can be accessed here.